Instructions: Pick ONE of the following two options to answer in your post. Afte

Instructions: Pick ONE of the following two options to answer in your post. After submitting your post (which should be at least 250 words if you want an “A” on the assignment), post a response to someone who wrote on the question you did NOT answer. Your reaction to your peer should be at least 75 words to earn an “A” on the response. For your original submission, please include either the word “Race” or “Native Anthropology” in your post title to make it easier for your classmates to identify posts that are different from their own.
OPTION #1 (Race): Robin Sheriff describes many stories from people’s lives that help us to understand the meanings of race for both Afro-descendents and middle-class-whites in Rio de Janeiro. Did any of the stories remind you of experiences from your own life? If so, compare and contrast your own experiences to those of the people Sheriff interviewed. The best answers will use specific stories from the book and (ideally) cite the pages where Sheriff described the stories, rather than just vaguely referencing the book. Analyze what is and is not similar to ideas of race within the group of people with whom you normally come into contact, vs. those that Sheriff described.
OPTION #2 (Native anthropology): Some advocates of native anthropology argue that people who grew up with a particular community can have a more profound understanding of that community’s culture, while others believe you need an outside perspective to recognize cultural difference. Still others say this division between native and non-native anthropologists is a false one, and that the most important thing is the quality of relationships that are formed during fieldwork. Compare and contrast the positioning of two of the anthropologists we have read so far: 1) Abu-Lughod (who calls herself a “halfie” because she feels she is partially native) and 2) Sheriff (a total outsider to Brazil and the racial group she focuses on.) Analyze the quality of relationships each was able to build. Did their position of being more or less native seem to have an effect? Why or why not?